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| Aquaponics unit made from recycled 250 gallon containers |
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| Incredible vermiculture compost going on using worms and horse manure too. They use this for the flats and growing mediums with a mixture of coconut sifted husk. |
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| Growing mushrooms with extra space using coconut husk fiber and shredded straw. |
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| Two baby goats were born yesterday at the goat farm! |
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| They sell mushroom kits with spores! |
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| Selling compost by the yard! |
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| Beautiful mural expressing the food justice movement! |
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| They sell educational starter kits for schools and the public. |
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| Growing micro greens for the dense nutritional value. Here you have sprouting sunflowers and dwarf sweet peas. They average a 7 day turnover from sprouting to harvest and sell them for $15 a pound. |
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| Beautiful sunflower sprouts! |
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| Sweet pea flat. |
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| Experimental water filtration system in a green house heated by compost piles and solar energy. |
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| More aquaponics systems with plants growing above. |
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| The experimental greenhouse. |
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| watercress growing with nasturtium hanging over. |
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| Microgreens growing in a pot of vermicompost and sifted coconut husk. |
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| Greens, mushrooms and Professor Scott Truex. |
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| Inoculated logs with shitake mushroom spores hanging over the aquaponic systems. |
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| Weighing vermicompost before turning into microgreens flats. |
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| Mushroooms in pallet and buckets of greens! |
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| Wheel barrel full of black gold! |
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| After putting the spores in the log, a wax is applied for cover. |
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| Buckets of worm castings and microgreens. |
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| Greens! |
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| More mushrooms! |
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| Beautiful cascading nasturtiums. |
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| The entrance of the Growing Power operation with solar panels on top! |
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| Trays of microgreens! |
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| Closeup of peas microgreens! |
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| Ingredients for their growing medium. |
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| Worm bin pre sifting. |
Wow - looks like a cool trip!
ReplyDeleteI would need help to know what I'm seeing. This looks really cool and like they're doing things I've never seen before. Are those logs treated for mushrooms or something?
ReplyDeleteYes, sorry...I haven't had time to add details to each picture but will. Yes, those logs are inoculated with shitake mushroom spores and are growing above an aquaponics closed loop system. They said they will dip the logs in the water when they start to grow to trick them into dying and then they will produce more.
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